Lac Capri Fishing Guide, Lanaudière, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Capri is a Lanaudière water, in Quebec. It sits at 470 metres above sea level. At about 10 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. With about 2.1 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Head to Manawan, 7 km away, for anything you forgot. Trois-Rivières is the closest city, 177 km away. Also worth knowing: Lac Arachis just 1.3 km, Lac Hadancourt (2.3 km), Lac Jourdeau just 2.7 km, Lac Milard (2.9 km) and Lac Cod just 3.3 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lac Capri

  Depth figures are not published for this one. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Species logged across Lanaudière include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Anyone new to Lac Capri should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 17°C and January reads -16°C. Long winters and short summers set the pattern. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Lac Capri fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Lac Arachis, 1.3 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat Lac Capri as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.